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APPARATUS FOR SHTJ'FI'LING- AND DEALIG- To all whom it lIna/y concern: Y

Be it known that L'Hononn ETiENNEYPIQUn'r, of

Sartrouville, in the Empire of France, engineer, havev invented a newand useful .Apparatus for Shuiing and Dealing Cards; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescriptionvthereof,

which will enable those skilled inthe ait to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompany# ing. drawing, forming part of thisspecification, in which drawmg- Figure 1 is-a side view of theapparatus;

Figure 2, a front end view; and

Figure 3, a top view.

Similar letters indicatecorresponding parts.

This invention consists in a box, made of wood or any othermaterial,combined with a clock-movement. This box, which has the width, orthereaoouts, of an. ordinary playing-card, twice its'length, and a depthabout equal to three times the thickness of a pack or game of cards, isdivided in the middle, transversely, by several steel, brass, or copperwires fixed in its sides, at a certain distance from one another. Afterthe cardsfhavebeen put in the. box, which is furnished ,with alittledoor, said box is shaken in the .direction of 4 its length, Aandthereby the cards are shuffled by being divided by the transverse andmetal wires.

Afterthe/shniing ofl the cards has been effected,

the box is inclined, and said cards are all brought for? ward to thefront part, and pressed, towards the Ytop thereof, against a roller ofcork or wood, covered or notV A is the box; it is closed at its rear endby a sliding or hinged door, B, which is opened by meansof the notch Gtointroduce the pack of cards.

, D is a flat spring, having a slot, E, 'a pin, F G, the head, F, ofwhich rests on the spring, passes through this slot, and through'acorresponding slot which is in the bottom of the box.

If by the pressure of the nger on the button G,

the pin F G is caused to slide in the slot ofthe box,

the

spring D will be depressed to thebottom of the box.K

Dl is a movable platform, connected, by a hinge, D2, to the spring. D.This platform, onwhich the cards are placed for distribution, assumesthe horizontal position, when the spring D is permitted to lise, thefront end of said platform resting against the distriblextendltransversely across the box. They serve to separate and divide thecards, when shaken to and fro to shuffle them, the spring D and theplatform Dl being, during this operation, depressed to the bottom of thebox.

Instead of causing the boxto be opened at the side it might .be soarranged as to open at the top or front. by means of a sliding or hingedclosing piece.

After the pack of cards has been brought back to the front part of thebox, the button G is slid back, and the spring D causes the platibrm torise, and the pack of cards I resting thereon, as shown in iig. 1, ispushed up against the distributing-roller J.

This roller, which is made of cork or wood, presses on the cards, and byits rotary-movement pushes out, successively, one card after the other,through the slot or opening L in the front of the case.

This roller may be covered ornot with cloth, caoutchouc, or any othersuitable elastic substance.

The clock-work is enclosed in a thin brass case, M, connected with abox, A, by means of the screws Np N or otherwise.

O is the ordinary barrel enclosing lthe main spring, the arbor of which.spring protrudes from the case, and. carries a little handle, P, whichserves to wind it up.

This arbor carries inside al ratchet-wheel, Q, -with its spring-catch,to prevent it from turning back, as usual in every clock-movement.

The main wheel R of this barrel gears into the pinion S, keyed on thearbor T of the roller J, whereby vsaid roller receives its motion, whichis governed by means of the brake-spring Uf bearing on the little rollerU.

on the arbor fr of the roller J is keyed' a. wheel, v,

caused to bear on the little roller U. When the rota- `n tion is to takeplace, a button, V, should be pressed in, and thereby the little rollerU is freed and the movement is started. Between the front edge of thebox and that of the clock-case there is just sujiicient space for thepassage of a single card.

At its front and rear ends the box is lined with a sheet, W', of clothor caoutchouc, to protect the edges of the cards when shuled. When aplain box for ,the shufliing of the cards only is required, theclockwork, the roller J, the spring D, and the platform Dl can beomitted, and the b'ox A alone retained, with its wires H H H. This wouldconsiderably simplify the apparatus.

A box may also be made without any clock-moyemeut, and merely furnishedwith a distributing-roller, J, which might be actuated With the. hand bymeans ot' a handle. Such a box being less complicated, would be lessexpensive.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to securevby Letters Patents, is-

l. The transverse metal Wires H, in combination with the box A,substantially as and for the Vpurpose set forth.

2, The vcombination of the clock-movement with the distributing-rollerJ, the spring D, the platform D, and the pin F G, constructed andoperating substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The platform D", in combination with the spring D, the pin 11 G, anddistributing-roller J, constructed and operating as and foil the purposeset foith.

- H. E. PIQUET,

Witnesses:

H. BONNEVILLE, H. FRIcKnR.

